You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.